different between apprehend vs deem
apprehend
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French apprehender (compare modern French appréhender), from Latin apprehendere. Compare Spanish aprehender.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æ.p?i?h?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Verb
apprehend (third-person singular simple present apprehends, present participle apprehending, simple past and past participle apprehended)
- (transitive, archaic) To take or seize; to take hold of.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, Of Contentedness
- We have two hands to apprehend it.
- (transitive, law enforcement) To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, Of Contentedness
- (transitive) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it.
- 1858, William Ewart Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age
- The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- (transitive) To anticipate; especially, to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
- (intransitive) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
- (intransitive) To be apprehensive; to fear.
- c. 1700, Nicholas Rowe (translator), Characters: Or, the Manners of the Age (originally by Jean de La Bruyère)
- It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
- c. 1700, Nicholas Rowe (translator), Characters: Or, the Manners of the Age (originally by Jean de La Bruyère)
Usage notes
To apprehend, comprehend. These words come into comparison as describing acts of the mind. Apprehend denotes the laying hold of a thing mentally, so as to understand it clearly, at least in part. Comprehend denotes the embracing or understanding it in all its compass and extent. We may apprehend many truths which we do not comprehend. The very idea of God supposes that He may be apprehended, though not comprehended, by rational beings. We may apprehend much of Shakespeare's aim and intention in the character of Hamlet or King Lear; but few will claim that they have comprehended all that is embraced in these characters. --Trench.
(material dates from 1913)
Synonyms
- catch, seize, arrest, detain, capture, conceive, understand, imagine, believe, fear, dread
Derived terms
- apprehension
- misapprehend
Translations
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deem
English
Etymology
From Middle English d??men (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English d?man (“to decide, decree, deem, determine, judge; to condemn, doom, sentence; to consider, examine, reckon, think; to prove; to compute, estimate; to declare, tell; to glorify, praise”), from Proto-Germanic *d?mijan? (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to set, put”). The word is cognate with Danish dømme (“to judge”), Dutch doemen (“to condemn, foredoom”), North Frisian dema (“to judge, recognise”), Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to judge”), Norwegian Nynorsk døma (“to judge”), Swedish döma (“to judge, sentence, condemn”). It is also related to doom.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /di?m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dim/
- Rhymes: -i?m
Verb
deem (third-person singular simple present deems, present participle deeming, simple past and past participle deemed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
- Synonym: judge
- (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree.
- Synonym: judge
- (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
- Synonym: judge
- (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
- Synonyms: consider; see also Thesaurus:deem
- (transitive, intransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
deem (plural deems)
- An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Mede, deme, meed
Dutch
Alternative forms
- deim
Noun
deem m (plural demen, diminutive deemke n)
- (Brabant) dumb person
Synonyms
- sukkel
References
- [1]
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German themu, demu, from Proto-Germanic *þammai.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de?m/
- Rhymes: -e?m
Determiner
deem m or n (unstressed dem)
- dative of deen
- dative of dat
Declension
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?de.??j/
- (Portugal, following a non-nasal sound) IPA(key): [?ðe.??j]
Verb
deem
- inflection of dar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative
Scots
Etymology
Scots form of English dame.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dim/
Noun
deem (plural deems)
- woman, dame
- maid (especially a kitchen maid)
deem From the web:
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- what deems a car totaled
- what deemed means
- what deems a car a total loss
- what deems a house unlivable
- what deems a house uninhabitable
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- what deems a vehicle totaled
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